"Once upon a time, we'd ask our older siblings or big kids in the school ground for things like 'is Santa real?' or 'how do you tell someone you like them?' but today, they just Google it," Sims told HuffPost Australia.

"As soon as they can spell and type, you can expect they'll be figuring out how to search the internet."

As for Google's role in this Father Christmas farce, we put it to a Google spokesman who had this to say to HuffPost Australia: